BlackBerry Storm 9530
No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry?
Published: November 26, 2008 New York Times
Research in Motion (R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it’s delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphones that, to this day, outsell even the much-adored iPhone.
The Storm can display a touch-screen Qwerty keyboard, above, or SureType keys.
Here’s a great example of the intelligence that drives R.I.M.: The phones all have simple, memorable, logical names instead of incomprehensible model numbers. There’s the BlackBerry Pearl (with a translucent trackball). The BlackBerry Flip (with a folding design). The BlackBerry Bold (with a stunning design and faux-leather ...
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After I bought mine on friday morning I went back saturday to get a gel cover for it and the crowd of people returning them was almost as big as the crowd of people buying them the day before. The girl that always helps me when I go in there (Jen) described the whole Storm experience as a "nightmare with no end in sight." ☹️
In no way, shape or form would RIM ever replace it's physical keyboard phones (Bold, Curve, etc.) with touch screen phones. BB users would not stand for it
I would expect a lot of returns, but at the same time many of those people should never have gotten the phone in the first place. It is not for everyone.